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Unscored USN-2295-1 13 CVEs

firefox vulnerabilities

Published Jul 22, 2014 · Updated Apr 22, 2026

Ecosystem: Ubuntu

Summary

Christian Holler, David Keeler, Byron Campen, Gary Kwong, Jesse Ruderman,
Andrew McCreight, Alon Zakai, Bobby Holley, Jonathan Watt, Shu-yu Guo,
Steve Fink, Terrence Cole, Gijs Kruitbosch and Cătălin Badea discovered
multiple memory safety issues in Firefox. If a user were tricked in to
opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could potentially exploit
these to cause a denial of service via application crash, or execute
arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking Firefox.
(CVE-2014-1547, CVE-2014-1548)

Atte Kettunen discovered a buffer overflow when interacting with WebAudio
buffers. An attacker could potentially exploit this to cause a denial of
service via application crash or execute arbitrary code with the
privileges of the user invoking Firefox. (CVE-2014-1549)

Atte Kettunen discovered a use-after-free in WebAudio. An attacker could
potentially exploit this to cause a denial of service via application
crash or execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking
Firefox. (CVE-2014-1550)

David Chan and Gijs Kruitbosch discovered that web content could spoof
UI customization events in some circumstances, resulting in a limited
ability to move UI icons. (CVE-2014-1561)

Jethro Beekman discovered a use-after-free when the FireOnStateChange
event is triggered in some circumstances. An attacker could potentially
exploit this to cause a denial of service via application crash or
execute arbitrary code with the priviliges of the user invoking Firefox.
(CVE-2014-1555)

Patrick Cozzi discovered a crash when using the Cesium JS library to
generate WebGL content. An attacker could potentially exploit this to
execute arbitrary code with the privilges of the user invoking Firefox.
(CVE-2014-1556)

Tyson Smith and Jesse Schwartzentruber discovered a use-after-free in
CERT_DestroyCertificate. An attacker could potentially exploit this to
cause a denial of service via application crash or execute arbitrary
code with the privileges of the user invoking Firefox. (CVE-2014-1544)

A crash was discovered in Skia when scaling an image, if the scaling
operation takes too long. An attacker could potentially exploit this to
execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking Firefox.
(CVE-2014-1557)

Christian Holler discovered several issues when parsing certificates
with non-standard character encoding, resulting in the inability to
use valid SSL certificates in some circumstances. (CVE-2014-1558,
CVE-2014-1559, CVE-2014-1560)

Boris Zbarsky discovered that network redirects could cause an iframe
to escape the confinements defined by its sandbox attribute in
some circumstances. An attacker could potentially exploit this to
conduct cross-site scripting attacks. (CVE-2014-1552)

Fixed packages 1

ReleasePackageFixed in
Ubuntu · 14.04 LTS 14.04:LTS firefox 31.0+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1

Vulnerabilities 13

  • Unscored —
    CVE-2014-1544

    Use-after-free vulnerability in the CERT_DestroyCertificate function in libnss3.so in Mozilla Network Security Services…

    thunderbird firefox nss nss Debian Ubuntu
  • Unscored —
    CVE-2014-1547

    Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in the browser engine in Mozilla Firefox before 31.0, Firefox ESR 24.x before 24.7…

    thunderbird firefox Ubuntu
  • Unscored —
    CVE-2014-1548

    Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in the browser engine in Mozilla Firefox before 31.0 and Thunderbird before 31.0 a…

    firefox Ubuntu
  • Unscored —
    CVE-2014-1549

    The mozilla::dom::AudioBufferSourceNodeEngine::CopyFromInputBuffer function in Mozilla Firefox before 31.0 and Thunderb…

    thunderbird firefox Ubuntu
  • Unscored —
    CVE-2014-1550

    Use-after-free vulnerability in the MediaInputPort class in Mozilla Firefox before 31.0 and Thunderbird before 31.0 all…

    thunderbird firefox Ubuntu
  • Unscored —
    CVE-2014-1552

    Mozilla Firefox before 31.0 and Thunderbird before 31.0 do not properly implement the sandbox attribute of the IFRAME e…

    thunderbird firefox Ubuntu
  • Unscored —
    CVE-2014-1555

    Use-after-free vulnerability in the nsDocLoader::OnProgress function in Mozilla Firefox before 31.0, Firefox ESR 24.x b…

    thunderbird firefox Ubuntu
  • Unscored —
    CVE-2014-1556

    Mozilla Firefox before 31.0, Firefox ESR 24.x before 24.7, and Thunderbird before 24.7 allow remote attackers to execut…

    thunderbird firefox Ubuntu
  • Unscored —
    CVE-2014-1557

    The ConvolveHorizontally function in Skia, as used in Mozilla Firefox before 31.0, Firefox ESR 24.x before 24.7, and Th…

    thunderbird firefox Ubuntu
  • Unscored —
    CVE-2014-1558

    Mozilla Firefox before 31.0 and Thunderbird before 31.0 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (X.509 cert…

    thunderbird firefox Ubuntu
  • Unscored —
    CVE-2014-1559

    Mozilla Firefox before 31.0 and Thunderbird before 31.0 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (X.509 cert…

    thunderbird firefox Ubuntu
  • Unscored —
    CVE-2014-1560

    Mozilla Firefox before 31.0 and Thunderbird before 31.0 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (X.509 cert…

    thunderbird firefox Ubuntu
  • Unscored —
    CVE-2014-1561

    Mozilla Firefox before 31.0 does not properly restrict use of drag-and-drop events to spoof customization events, which…

    firefox Ubuntu

References

  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-1544
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-1547
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-1548
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-1549
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-1550
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-1552
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-1555
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-1556
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-1557
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-1558
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-1559
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-1560
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-1561
  • report
    https://launchpad.net/bugs/1342311